Post by Tricia on Dec 10, 2007 8:27:42 GMT -5
Well last night we were putting a thick layer of old hay for more bedding in Molly's house. She was playing at being a wall and in the way alot. We got her outside then she would be back in the door way. Hey it is cold and snowing outside!!!
So we had to go around her with forks full of hay. I had just deposited my fork full, turned around and she was twitching and staggering. I yelled to DH to look out something is wrong with Molly. He quickly gets rid of his fork and tries holding her up. Which worked for about 30 seconds. Her eyes were rolling, she is twitching, then her head curls to one side and she starts going down. Banging into us, the trailer, the fence (it was off). Drunk staggering cow! So she is down doing this for less than a minute (i think), then comes out of it. I could see her eyes for focusing again.
So for about 5 minutes she is down getting rubs from us. We get her up and she wandered around her pasture a bit and wouldn't go in her house.
So she did something similar this summer, but she was being a pain while DH was picking up some net fencing from the chickens. She was following him around ect... She then steps in some of it, got tangled, tripped and staggered around then zapped her nose on the portable wire set up for her (probably 8 feet from where she got into trouble to begin with. She had a seizure then, but he kept her on her feet. DS came to get me and I found DH holding up the 850 pound girl.
So there was no electricity in her house on at the time. Her lights were off, ect...
She is in a shed attached to our outdoor furnace house which has the electric fence charger in that room. She has an issue with the submersable water tank heater, so I only use it when I'm there (as in warm up the water then remove it). So she is sensitive to electricity. Some of our gates in the pasture have wires underground and she doesn't like them.
Well back to the subject. We can't figure out if electricity caused this as nothing was plugged in and we didn't get zapped. DH even had the fence tester out to see if we got something. Nada.
But something did trip the breaker on that circuit yesterday. We double checked the grounding rods, all seemed fine.
She did finally go in her house and start munching later on.
So do cows have seizures? We had a dog that was epileptic.
Her behaivor at both incidents was similar. Getting in our way, mrs. Curious/deviousness.
Maybe her way of looking for help?
So we had to go around her with forks full of hay. I had just deposited my fork full, turned around and she was twitching and staggering. I yelled to DH to look out something is wrong with Molly. He quickly gets rid of his fork and tries holding her up. Which worked for about 30 seconds. Her eyes were rolling, she is twitching, then her head curls to one side and she starts going down. Banging into us, the trailer, the fence (it was off). Drunk staggering cow! So she is down doing this for less than a minute (i think), then comes out of it. I could see her eyes for focusing again.
So for about 5 minutes she is down getting rubs from us. We get her up and she wandered around her pasture a bit and wouldn't go in her house.
So she did something similar this summer, but she was being a pain while DH was picking up some net fencing from the chickens. She was following him around ect... She then steps in some of it, got tangled, tripped and staggered around then zapped her nose on the portable wire set up for her (probably 8 feet from where she got into trouble to begin with. She had a seizure then, but he kept her on her feet. DS came to get me and I found DH holding up the 850 pound girl.
So there was no electricity in her house on at the time. Her lights were off, ect...
She is in a shed attached to our outdoor furnace house which has the electric fence charger in that room. She has an issue with the submersable water tank heater, so I only use it when I'm there (as in warm up the water then remove it). So she is sensitive to electricity. Some of our gates in the pasture have wires underground and she doesn't like them.
Well back to the subject. We can't figure out if electricity caused this as nothing was plugged in and we didn't get zapped. DH even had the fence tester out to see if we got something. Nada.
But something did trip the breaker on that circuit yesterday. We double checked the grounding rods, all seemed fine.
She did finally go in her house and start munching later on.
So do cows have seizures? We had a dog that was epileptic.
Her behaivor at both incidents was similar. Getting in our way, mrs. Curious/deviousness.
Maybe her way of looking for help?